This was reported to Human Rights Center “Viasna” by the head of Belarusian DocumentationCenter Raisa Mikhailouskaya.
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Young Front activist Raman Vasilyeu. Photo by svaboda.org
On 26 May, Raman Vasilyeu, activist of the Young Front opposition movement, was expected to be released after serving 12 days of arrest for public displaying of a white-red-white flag. However, the activist is now facing new charges and will stand trial this afternoon.
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On December 5, 2009 Tatsiana Shaputska was expelled from the Faculty of Law of Belarusian State University.
The decision on expulsion was passed by the Rector of BSU, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Siarhei Ablameika. The official press is replete with explanations that the reason for the decision to expel Tatsiana Shaputska was her failure to attend the classes for two days as well as breaking the travel rules for students during the academic year. Continue reading »
On October 22 in Barysau unknown persons beat Young Front members Maxim Akhrymenka and Yury Bahdanovich during collection of signatures in support of the Belarusian language.
“We collected signatures among passers-by together, when four unknown people in plainclothes came near us,” Maxim Akhrymenka said to mfront.net website. “They asked whether we are Young Front members, and when we said yes, they started to beat us”.
As said by the young activist, when police patrol saw the fight, policemen turned around and went the other way. Then people in plainclothes disappeared.
Source: www.spring96.org
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The activist can face a criminal case for membership in an unauthorized organization. Recently he has been served a warning for it. As RFE/RL reports, he was also summoned to the prosecutor’s office for giving evidence.
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According to www.salihorsk.org, youth activist Andrei Tychyna has been invited for a conversation to Salihorsk town executive committee and warned that he might face expulsion from high school in case he participated in the officially authorized 25 March Freedom Day demonstration.
Alla Barodzich also said similar warnings will be issued to other Salihorsk youth activists, including Krystsina Samoilava and Ilya Shyla.
According to www.by.milinkevich.org, Mazyr town authorities refused to facilitate the search for a legal address by the Young Front youth movement, saying interference in the activities of NGOs is prohibited by the law.
The town authorities also refused to assist the Young Front in finding premises for holding a constituent assembly by the organization’s local office. At the same time the founders of the movement were warned that holding an illegal congress would be viewed as violation of the Law on Mass Actions and may result in administrative or criminal prosecution.
Zmitser Khvedaruk had a medical examination in polyclinic # 14 yesterday, website mfront.net reports.
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‘God never shuts one door but he opens another.’
On 7 February Zmitser Khvedaruk, member of the Young Front unregistered youth organization, officially joined the army in military unit #18662 in Zhodzina. The activist was drafted to the army despite the fact he is a full-time student of the Christian College. He had also been previously prosecuted for membership in an unregistered organization – Article 193-1 of the Belarusian Criminal Code. Thus the state showed that it is the authorities not the Constitution that rules in the country.
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8 April in the evening at the town exit of Polatsk the road police stopped the car with the youth activists, members of the Young Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Liudvisia Atakulava, Valery Matskevich, Dzianis Sadouski, Aliaksei Shein and Pavel Sitnik. During the detention the policemen told that the chair of Polatsk town police department had some questions to them. Continue reading »